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My father introduced me to chess at a young age, but I did not pursue it. He very rarely played chess, but I received a chess board as a present, and he taught me the basics. I took to playing chess and aiming to improve my game in March 2010. You could say that I started playing chess then.

"Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame." - Lajos Portisch, in How to Open a Chess Game.

"Any opening is good enough to be played if its reputation is bad enough." - Savielly Tartakower

"All problems are solvable if you look at them in the right way." - Andrew Wallace

"Well that was a hard blow. But what do you do? You make the most of it." - Al Gore, in An Inconvenient Truth.

"The problem is, where does chess fall? You really can't put chess in a science room or a laboratory. Surely, you can't put chess in the Olympics. And the question is, if you can't put it anywhere, what use is it?" - CM Glenn Umstead, quoted in The Chess Artist, 2004 [qixel].

"The person that says 'It can't be done!' is liable to be interrupted by the person doing it."

 Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll, in Alice in Wonderland.